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Comment by Kevuas

(1) Kill Julianne. - Heals for 10-15% or so of her life. This need to be kicked, bashed, CSed with top priority. - Holy DoT. 3-4K over a few seconds. This DoT is bearable, and you should be able to heal through it, so don't burn your cooldowns on this and miss the heal.(2) Kill Romulo. - Keep the buff off him that makes him do 6-7K crushing blows on your tank. - Disarm him every time it's up. Tanks will need to be juiced up in good gear and lots of stam to survive him.(3) They both rez up simultaneously and you have to kill them all over again. You also need to kill them both at the same time or they will rez each other in about 10 seconds. Careful when they rez together because he will run off to a healer and one-shot them.

You will need to watch both of them very closely. It's advisable to bring a mage and a rogue at least to interrupt. You can also use a felhunter, but they are fairly squishy to holy damage. Two tanks required.

Comment by Krakotoa

Dropped Earthsoul Leggings

Comment by Gull

Watch your dots at the end of the 2nd phase. Advisable to stop at around 10% depending on how fast your taking him down. They continue to take damage while they are "dead" which is building aggro on your lock/priest. If they get charged at the beginning of the 3rd phase it's a pain to recover.

Also, Romulo applies a poison on the tank, it needs to be cleansed.

Comment by Uplink911

"Julianna buffs herself with "devotion" this needs to be dispelled immediately, as it reduces the time of her self heal significantly (goes down to 0.5 seconds?). It visually looks like a green splash around her feet. Paladins will remember it as the old blessing of Salv =]

Romulo applies a double stacking dot that reduces stats by 20%, needs to be cleansed immediatly."

Quoted from Gull on the Julianne Comments, felt its a needed pice of info for this encounter

Comment by Methadone

Phase 1:Julianne alone- Its useful to have 3-4 classes who can interupt all heals/spells during phase 1 to save mana healing the guys who get hit with the holy DoT.- Priests can use the macro "/cast Dispel" to instantly remove the self buff she casts without changing targets.- When shes on low health, its useful for the tank to move her to one side of the theatre.

Phase 2Romulo alone- Fairly hard hitting, self buff needs to be dispelled asap, otherwise its a fairly simple fight. Disarm helps a massive amount (~100% damage reduction). Time the disarms so the CD is refreshed before the start of phase 3.- Keep an abolish Poison on the tank otherwise the debuff (-10% stats, stacks 10 times) will stack too high and require too much healing.- Again pull him to the opposite side to Julianne before he dies to make it easier to pick them up during phase 3.

Phase 3Julianne and Romulo together- Position the tanks in place as soon as phase 2 ends and pick the bosses up quickly. Misdirection works well here, Julianne can cast Powerful Attraction immediatly on the tank if you're unlucky.- Disarm is nice opener on Romulo so healers have a bit of breathing space for any mishaps (tank getting stunned on Julianne etc)- Keep an interupt class on Julianne to try stop the DoT, you can ignore the heals for now. (I believe she does have a spell to heal Romulo but we never saw it, perhaps its its due to range/luck)- DPS down Romulo first to about 5% or so (~8k HP) and then switch to Julianne, kill her then kill Romulo in under 10seconds.

Comment by Traianus

It has been proven that she does heal him during the encounter. Its best to keep CS, Sheild Block, or Kick on her at all times during the final encounter while majority of DPS is on Romulo

Comment by thedangle

I noticed that during the encounter she will only try to heal romulo when she herself is at full health. We missed a kick on her and then our rogue died, we had no way to interupt her so she healed herself to full in about 4 heals (she was at 30% as was romulo) and then only after did she begin to heal him.

Comment by Satarus

Okay he has a front cleave and a back attack. The back attack only appears to affect 1 person at at time. My question is: is it possible to avoid both his frontal cleave AND his back attack?

Comment by Parge

Took us quite a few attempts, but we finally managed to get this pair down, small tip which might help is if you've brought a hunter, try to keep Scorpid Sting on Romulo. This will make him miss the tank quite a lot. Good Luck!

Comment by SilverKnight

There are two reasons why this is considered the hardest Opera House event. Firstly, Romulo hits hard and does some nasty cursing and buffing. Secondly, they need to die within ten seconds of each other, or they both respawn. With one of them being a healer, that's quite awkward.

Comment by thantik

This guy needs to be reported/modded down every chance you get if he links bosskillers.com - ALL of his comments come from that website and are considered advertisements.

Comment by Cyris

Just did this tonight for like our 5th time doing Operah, we had wizard of oz first actually, then romulo and juliet and after we killed them, we were able to fight them again, loot dropped for the second time, and also if you dont have access to a mage for the spell steal, you can use a shaman to purge.

Comment by CthulhuChild

does both romulo and julianne drop 1 or 2 pieces of loot? i feel like when my guild dropped her we got 1 from each and when my friend's guild got her they got 2 pieces from each, which seems crazy. is there a bug?

Comment by kalmah

Tips for hunters and engineers: Use snake traps and pets on 3rd round in juilette so she targets them instead of anyone else with her dot. Also engineers make compact reaver kits or whatever else that can be used to attack her so she targets those as well.

Also if your guild hasnt made it a requirement get KTM meter, get it so you know when to feign death to wipe aggro.

Comment by Gyvon

Juliet is immune to Counterspell

Comment by Caje

Ribbon of Sacrifice is so shitty. I mean, yea, it gets a useful upgrade after the patch.

Look at the Talisman of Ascendance, its on par, if not better. It only has a 1min cooldown too. I still use it on my Shaman when I need to spec resto or elem on my Shaman.

Comment by darnor

Comment by darnor

Beastmaw pauldrons

Comment by elpimpo12

He sounds like the Pillsbury Doughboy, "Ahoo!"

Comment by Cleodora

Interestingly, his and Julianne's skeletons can be found in Karazhan.

In the corridor leading to the Maiden of Virtue, look for the room furthest away from the Maiden's room. In the bedroom on the left, you will find two skeletons, dried up roses in between them. One skeleton has a vial in his hand, presumably poison, the other has a dagger still lodged in its chest.

Comment by unitepunx

There is a chance that one of the random BoP epics will drop from one of them, from the same loot table that the trash uses.

Comment by Raptorg

hmm, i've been tanking this guy and died rather fast

i'm a feral druid with 17k health(raidbuffed), 28% dodge and 22k armor(26k with inspiration) and he obliterated me on the third phasei am crit "immune" 2.2% from defence and 0.41% from resilience(+3% from talents) so couldn't have been critted to death

i was quite stunned what happened there, i had no problems on him in the second phase where i main tanked him

apparently the healing was too slow?

any ideas? cause afterwards a better geared warrior joined instead(i went dps/off-tank in case he'd die) but everything went well, for as long as i could abolish the poison(before my poisons were cleansed as well so that couldn't have been an issue)

any ideas why i got obliterated by him? quite frankly i think my stats are pretty decent for early karazhan

Comment by Seafog

Since they are undead, has anyone tried to shackle or pally fear?

Comment by Seafog

Daring is a Magic type buff, so Hunters should be able to dispell it with Arcane Shot after the 2.3 patch. Has anyone tried this on the PTR?

Comment by Davidcprfld

We just downed Romulo and Julianne with only 2 interrupts, Resto Shammy, healing and earthshocking, and Rogue. Had holy priest on MT on Romulo dispelling Daring.

@Raptorg, I too am a Druid. Understanding that I am uncrittable, I am still crushable. All bosses can still hit you with those insane crushing blows. As a Druid, you should get used to it. Pallies and warriors can block them, we sit there and take it and hope the healer you have in on top of their game.

Comment by Malone

As of 2.3.2 it is confirmed that a Hunter's Arcane Shot will remove the Daring buff.

Comment by VooktaVelen

Tried the vent for the first time with my guild & the whole event is on a timer, if you don't do it fast enough the event will reset. I am not sure how long that timer is. Wiped 3 times and on the 4'th try while trying to kill her the even reset. Happened again on the next try.

For the first time of having someone at the event, this one is not one that i would recommend lol

Comment by Legomyegolas

He has lost himself, he is not here.This is not Romulo, he's some other where.

Comment by Dracmus

The make-or-break of this fight is dispelling Daring from him, and removing his poisons from the tank. Either one will let him chew into plate like butter.

Ideally during the phase where you fight both of them, range dps will weight heavily on Romulo anyway (due to his cleaves and Julianne's lack of cleaves), which means there should always be at least one mage or hunter on him able to dispel Daring.

Comment by Chikaboom

definitley imo the hardest bosses out of the three in opera. the chances are if you dont have vent to communicate with your team mates you may have problems. what wedone is that we nuked romulo to 5%. we then moved all dps onto juleitte nuked her then by the time dps goes back to finish off romulo he was on about 2-3% off the tanks contribution of damage :P (me being the tank). however this may not work for eveyone else but in this circumstance it did :).

Comment by alexthegod5

I think that instead of both rezzing each other, it should be that when one dies, so does the other, so it would be more like a Shakespeare ending.

Comment by Hocey

This is a reference to the famous text by William Shakesphere: Romeo and Juliett.

Comment by Zefyron

Romeo...why be Romulo?...

Comment by lizz

I think Romulo and Julianne resemble Romeo, and Juliet in the Shakespeare novel.First thing, their name, second thing, the ability like Eternal Affection, Undying Love, of Julianne matched Juliet in the novel, so as Daring of Romulo, and Romulo uses a rapier, that's what Romeo used as weapon against Tybalt in the novel.

And according to Cleodora's comment"Interestingly, his and Julianne's skeletons can be found in Karazhan.

In the corridor leading to the Maiden of Virtue, look for the room furthest away from the Maiden's room. In the bedroom on the left, you will find two skeletons, dried up roses in between them. One skeleton has a vial in his hand, presumably poison, the other has a dagger still lodged in its chest."

At the end of the book, Romeo commited suicide with poison, because he saw Juliet lie there(thought she was dead), then Juliet wakes up and saw Romeo dead, then she stabbed herself with Romeo's dagger, they both die together.

I'm sure they resemble Romeo and Juliet

Comment by Eruionmel

44k unbuffed feral was unable to solo them.

I died the first time when I started in bear, as I underestimated her healing. Second time, I beserked in kitty and got her to around 1/3 health (interrupting a heal along the way) before dropping to bear and popping frenzied regen and a health pot. Second heal was bashed, and she died with me at around 2/5 health. I managed to pop a regrowth before Romulo entered and tanked him through in bear. His -10% stat poison is wicked, so I barkskinned (4piece T9 45 second CD) and abolished poison whenever needed, usually only taking one melee out of bear. Even so, I ended up dancing around 10k health the entire time once my SI went down. He died and I got off a regrowth and rejuv before they rezzed, at which point I popped into bear and lived for about 20 more seconds before dropping dead.

I don't think this is really soloable by anything other than maaaaybe a DK. Pallies would have trouble with interrupts on her, warriors can't cure the poison reliably or heal enough, and druids can't interrupt or cleanse poison without being ridiculously squishy.

Comment by jidders

Wasted time with Romulo in phase two. He does next to nothing in damage so you can stay full health. This gave time to get my beserk sooner in phase three.

Phase three i kept rolling lacerates on both and bashed the first heal. Let the second heal go because juliane was at 8k and romulo was at 50. The heal brought them even. Hit beserk and brought them both down before the next heal. But if needed My bash was up in time.I did have to use Survival instincts and frezied regen during this phase but not in any other phase.

Comment by Mickthathick

Just failed the duo twice, first time as Prot pally, second time as a Ret Pally.

Couldn't get past Julianne as Prot, as I was not doing enough damage to beat the Eternal Affection heal. I basically hit a stalemate with her, I wasn't dieing but I wasn't getting her down. The only spell that interrupted this heal was Hammer of Justice, and the long cooldown on it meant I could interrupt 1 heal, but not the second.

Tried it as Ret, and easily got through Julianne (Phase 1), easily got through Romulo (Stage 2), but was just smashed by the two of them in Phase Three.

Comment by Raelen

Soloable by protection spec paladin in dps (retribution) gear. The fight itself must have taken more than 30 minutes (had to recast Seal of Light) - it was my first ever try and I suffered numerous resurrections by both Julianne and Romulo in phase 3. Admittedly, being a blood elf, I've got 2 interrupts, not just one (Arcane Torrent works wonders), but I would say being able to solo these two is pretty much down to luck.

Phase 1 and 2 weren't particularly difficult (phase 1 took a few tries with Julianne healing to full and me not dieing), but phase 3 took me ages, as even 2 interrupts are far too few. Pretty much all of the fight I was targetting Julianne and only switched to Romulo just before she died.How I finally managed it:

- kept my Arcane Torrent and Hammer of Justice cooldowns for those times when Julianne heals Romulo;- used Consecration as much as possible to help with the damage;- kept cleansing Romulo's poison (you do not want that stacking up);- once Romulo was down to less than half health, I interrupted Julianne's heals on herself;- once Julianne was nearly dead and I had just interrupted a heal, I switched to Romulo and let the cleave effect kill Julianne;- once Julianne was dead, used Avenging Wrath and spammed any instant dps abilities which were off cooldown to dps Romulo down.

Twice I came very close to getting Romulo down before Julianne resurrected, I'd say I was about 1-2 seconds short, so it may take a few tries and lots of luck, but it is doable with just two interrupting abilities on long cooldowns :)Hope this helps whoever decides to take those two on!

Comment by zingar

possible as an aff/SL lock. must have good gear (5600gs+)

phase 1 just burn her down. i used voidwalker so i couldnt interrupt her heals but you should be able to outdps those heals. just burn her down as fast as possible and once she hits 25% hp cast drain soul. even if she heals back to 80% drain soul will get her down in 3-4 ticks.

for romulo i used pet to tank him till 80% then i just burned him down.he hits a bit hard but all dots + drain life should keep you up. if you still have trouble use demon armor and voidwalker sacrifice.

in phase2 use the voidwalker on romulo and focus on julianne. cast curse of weakness on romulo and keep corruption up all the time and go full dps on julianne.if she gets to 10% or less then you might wanna push the dps on romulo but dont get aggro off your pet or youll die due to the poison debuff and the damage from both bosses.your pet will receive little damage from romulo so fel synergy should be enough to keep it up.also make sure to have romulos away from you as he does some aoe pushback from time to time.julianne will normally heal herself so once romulo is around 10% kill julianne as you did in phase 1 and then hurry to kill romulo.

its a pretty intensive fight and its really not worth the time unless your in it for the fun,also dont remember to put a daemonic circle at the other side of the door. that way if your gonna die or just want to start over you just teleport and reset the event.

good luck!

Comment by Ishkandir

Soloed as a pure Retribution Paladin in a traditional raiding spec, only self-buffed with Kings, with ICC-level gear (mostly 10-man) and 4pc Tier 10. Health was just short of 27k. Short version is at the bottom. Please also note that this is a very safe way of attempting the fight - I did not try to burn phase 3 as the poster above, so I can't say how easy/hard that strategy would be.

Phase 1: Julianne is fairly easy to solo as a pure DPS. She will heal for around 50k at least once, but not often enough to merit her un-killable. Feel free to DPS traditionally: I used Seal of Righteousness and Judgment of Light with Sacred Shield up (something you always want to have - downloading a timer will help keep this up 100%), and casting Flash of Light when needed. I found that interrupting her first heal would generally have my Hammer of Justice come off CD right as the third phase began, so don't worry about using that either.

Phase 2: Romulo is fairly easy as well. Cleanse his poisons IMMEDIATELY - 99% of the time it is better to spend 2 GCD's cleansing than doing anything else. Your main goal in this phase is to end the fight with full health and, more importantly, mana. With the 2pc Tier 10 bonus active, Divine Storm will eat up a lot of mana in phase 3, so switch to Seal of Wisdom for now.

Phase 3: This is the tough part. Focus Julianne so you can see when she casts her heal. Switch to Seal of Light and Judgment of Light, and keep Sacred Shield up at all times. I started off by popping wings and beating on Julianne, and interrupting her first heal. By the time she casts her second heal, she should be down to around 20k health. At this point, you'll want to turn your attention to Romulo, while still keeping Julianne at 20k health or so. The key to this fight is controlling the heal at all times, even when you can't interrupt it. You want to slowly bring Romulo down to the same level as Julianne, while keeping Julianne busy healing herself. This will take over a minute, and you may very well run out of mana, so keep a Runic Mana Potion handy. Also try to take time to refresh Righteous Vengeance on Julianne, as the DoT damage does add up. Once the shared 30 second CD is over with, you can also use Divine Protection to mitigate a bit of damage.

By the time you bring both down to around 20k-30k health, your Hammer of Justice should be off CD, at which point you need to interrupt Julianne's next heal, and burn as fast as possible. It may take some attempts to fine-tune your own personal strategy. Keep in mind that, without Seal of Wisdom, you will run out of mana fairly quickly, and as such you cannot be expected to win a battle of attrition.

So, to recap:

Phases 1 and 2 are simple, and your goal at the end of them should be full health and mana, with all important CD's available (even something like Divine Plea). Seal and Judgment choice isn't a big deal here.

Phase 3: Burst Julianne down, slowly grind Romulo down over the course of a minute while keeping Julianne low (Divine Storm is golden, and you will need to drink a mana pot), then interrupt next heal with both under 20% and nuke them down. I used Seal of Light and Judgment of Light, and I did pop Divine Plea, Divine Protection halfway through, and a mana potion. As always, Sacred Shield and instant-cast Flash of Light is also recommended when you hit around half-health.

Good luck!

Comment by gamerunknown

Tried soloing as disc, oom'd due to stacking debuff.

Tried soloing as holy, didn't have enough dps to kill Julianne.

If you try soloing as a healing priest I'd recommend glyph of holy fire and dps talents in holy spec + body and soul and or very good gear.

Comment by kthirhis

Failed to solo as either Arcane or Frost mage, the stacking debuff caused me to go OOM from having a decreased mana pool, not even halfway through the fight I ran out of mana. Was very frustrated.

Comment by tnarg

Hardest fight in kara to solo at 85 and the only one that needed tactics:

Tactics for a level 85 bear:

Phase 1 & 2: easy, I did as cat for for speed to limit the debuff but dose not realy matter

Phase 3: hard becuase Romulo stacking debuf make hard to just DPS though problemsI found this very hard till I set focus on Julianne and used this macro to stop Julianne 'Eternal Affection' healing spell"/cast Skull Bash(Bear Form)"once you stopped that its easy to DPS them both to low HP and kill them with in 10 seconds of each other.

Comment by Shadowwhelp

I just killed Julianne and Romulo in their phases, and, when phase 3 showed up, had my pet on one and me on the other (I didn't take particular notice as to who was killing who, so I don't recall), kept on my target and Kill Command my pet's target. If one dies before the other, quickly burn down the second. They need to die together or the living one will revive the dead one.

All-in-all, if you handle it right, the fight will be little more than annoying.

Comment by Tomine

I was able to get them down as a level 82 Shadow Priest. The key to surviving is dispelling Romulo's buff. Otherwise, a clothie will get obliterated.

Phases 1 and 2 were very simple burns, but Phase 3 was tricky. I loaded my DoTs onto both and laid into Romulo first, burning him as fast as I could while keeping Julienne's buff off of him. Once down, I burned Julienne - she practically falls over compared to Romulo.

It took a couple of tries, but I was able to do it: it is a little aggravating when Julienne gets her heals off, but pop your CDs and wreak havoc and you should come out on top.

Comment by nessinia

Just did this as an 85 arcane mage, and once you know the basics of the fight it's really easy. Just burn through each one individually, and save all your CDs until they both pop up. Get the girl low, get the guy low (he'll probably get healed once or twice but just burn through it), and then kill them both off at the same time.

Comment by Darkaara

Listen to his critical wound sound. A guy with two weapons who can't handle getting hit majorly.

Comment by Darkaara

His voice is &*!@ing ANNOYING!

Comment by Isfendiyar

Romulo and Julianne are the parodies of Romeo and Juliet from William Shakespeare. Their aggros and responses from that Shakespeare's creation. How pretty.

Anyway, the comments at there were such outdated. After the damage multiplication system introduced in WOW, you do not have to worry about how are you gonna kill them both. Just attack regularly.

The Opera Event

Wizard of Oz

Red Riding Hood

Romulo and Julianne

Romulo is paired with Julianne in one of the three possible Opera encounters in Karazhan. Julianne will appear first alone, then after defeating her, Romulo will join the fight. After dispatching him, they will both rise and begin the fight again.